Paper-sack holder.



No. 674,245. A Patented May l4, l90l.

. T. E. MILLIKEN.

PAPER SACK HOLDER.

(Application filed .Im 25, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED I TATES ATENT OFFICE.

, THOMAS EDGAR MILLIKEN, OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.

PAPER-SACK HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 674,245, dated May 14, 1901.

Application filed January 25,1901. Serial No. 44,720. (No model.)

To all whom, it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS EDGAR MIL- LIKEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Youngstown, in the county of Mahoning, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Sack Holders; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to store-fixtures, and has particular reference to paper sack or bag holders for use upon a counter, a suitable rack supported upon a counter, or upon any convenient fixture. It is common practice to file paper sacks such as above referred to upon a wire nail or similar holder in such manner that they may be individually and quickly detached for the reception and delivery of merchandise; but my invention has for its object new and improved means for accomplishing this result.

Generally stated, the invention resides in a back plate supportinga detachable bracket, preferably of cast metal, and likewise a detachable stab-file or wire shaft, which cooperates and interlocks with said plate and bracket and which in practice pierces the upper edge of all sacks filed thereon in a manner which permits of their instant removal by a downward pull.

The invention will be herein after described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, and whereon like letters indicate corresponding parts in the several views, Figure 1 represents my in vention as applied to the back of a suitable dis,- play-rack, the latter for purposes of illustration being mounted upon an ordinary storecounter. Fig 2 is a side elevation of the invention, with a fragmentary view of a fixed support therefor; Fig. 3, longitudinal central section of the invention, taken through each of the members illustrated by Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectionv taken on the line 4 4, Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a vertical section taken on the line 5 5 of Fig. 2. 7,

Reference being had to the drawings and letters thereon, A indicates a store-counter,

and B a display-rack supported thereon, both of any approved construction, but the present illustrations showing a folding rack provided with shelving, (marked a.)

0 indicates a back plate secured, as by screws 1), to a suitable fixed support, as B, and provided with upwardly-extending diverging lugs D D, having undercut inner faces for embracing and detachably retaining the base E of bracket F. The outer walls of said base E are of trapezoidal form and diverge upwardly to correspond with the space between lugs D D, said space and base being of wedge shape and combining to produce a detachable dovetail connection. Near its lowermost end base E isbroken by a transverse slot 0, countersunk upon its under side for the ready reception of the head of an ordinary wire nail G or other form of stab-file, the opposite end or point at whereof is pocketed in a depression 6 at the distal end of said bracket F, all for purposes which will now appear in a description of the use and operation of my invention.

Back plate 0, being secured to a suitable fixed support, bags, sacks, bills, orders, or other papers of any description whatever which it may be desirable to file temporarily or otherwise are impaled near their upper edges upon nail G, the point d whereof is introduced into depression 6. The opposite or headed end of said nail is then placed in the countersunk slot 0 and base E of the bracket F dropped from above into the dovetailed groove formed by and between lugs D D, thus co'mpletingthe structure. As thus assembled it will .be noted that the act of dovetailing bracket F and back plate 0 constitutes an effectual lock for each of the detachable parts of the invention, which, however, may be instantly disengaged by reversal of the operation. As thus filed paper bags or sacks may be instantly and easily removed from the holder by force applied thereto in a downward direction, causing nail G to tear its way through the extreme upper edge of the bag or bags thus removed. This beinga description of my invention in its preferred form of construction, I by no means limit myself to such nor to any particular material or materials employed in its construction. These features may be varied largely without departing from the true value and spirit i of my invention, which Will now be set forth in the following claims.

1. In a paper-sack and bill file the combination with a back plate constituting a fixed supporting member, of a bracket in detachable connection therewith, and a stab-shaft detachably interlocked with said bracket and plate by the act. of assembling, substantially as described.

2. In a paper-sack and bill file the combi nation with a fixed supporting back plate, of a detachable bracket, dovetail connections between said plate and bracket, and a stabshaft detachably interlocked with said plate and bracket by the act of assembling, sub stantially as described.

In a paper-sack and bill file the combination with a fixed supporting back platel having converging lugs upon its surface, of a detachable bracket retained by said lugs, and a stab-shaft detachably interlocked with said plate and bracket by the act of assembling, substantially as described.

4. In a paper-sack and bill file the combination with a fixed su iiporting back plate, of a bracket. having a suitable base, dovetail connections between said plate and base, and a stab-shaft detachably supported between the extremities of said bracket being there interlocked by the act of assembling", substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I subscribe my sig nature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS EDGAR MILLIKEN.

IVitn esses:

.TonN I. WILLIAMS, Jr., W. (J. CARMAN. 

